Monster Menagerie: Howl at the Moon by Sam Hing is a role playing game supplement published by Rogue Genius Games for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result. This is part of the Monster Menagerie series that has new monsters on a specific theme; in this case, lycanthropes.
This is an 18-page PDF that is available from DriveThruRPG for $3.99 but as purchased at a greatly reduced price as part of a special bundle. One page is the front cover, one the Open Game License and Credits.
The single page Foreword explains that this supplement covers shapechangers of a variety of CRs. Each also comes with two sets of stats, one for the humanoid form and one for the hybrid form, which increases the length of each entry.
The Therianthropic Beast is the most powerful monster, one from the Abyss although it isn’t a demon, that likes to take control of groups of lycanthropes and use them to prey on humanoids.
The Weredeimonychus is a weredinosaur that hunts in packs.
The Werefrog is a primitive creature that lives in swamps.
The Wereorca is a shapechanging frost giant that likes breaking things.
The Wereowl is a usually good-aligned elf lycanthrope that guards the edges of elven settlements.
The Werescoprion is normally an ogre and passes the curse on through its stinger, rather than biting.
The Weretyrannosaurus is a storm giant weredinosaur that isn’t evil but that doesn’t mean it’s safe.
The Werewolverine is a solitary creature that has the wolverine’s tendency to attack anything.
Monster Menagerie: Howl at the Moon in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough that they would have been useful. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of error. Each monster has a black and white illustration, making presentation good. The monsters also do not overlap on pages, meaning a specific creature can be printed out by itself.
Most of the new lycanthropes lack new Ex and Su abilities, but lycanthropes already have a number of abilities across the entire group which makes up for this. Most are already dangerous enough without adding extras. At best, these new creatures will defend their people; at worst, they will go on bloody rampages – and there’s only one in the former category. Even the non-evil Weretyrannosaurus is very carefully watched by other storm giants. Monster Menagerie: Howl at the Moon has a nice new collection of dangerous weres and it can be found by clicking here.
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